The Black Art or Magic Made Easy

• TRICKS WITH CARDS
  1. How To Make The Pass
  2. The Long Card
  3. To Produce a Particular Card without Seeing the Pack
  4. To Call for Any Card in the Pack
  5. The Changeable Ace
  6. The Convertible Aces
  7. The Gathering of the Clans
  8. Everybody's Card
  9. Forcing a Card
  10. The Card hit upon by Guess
  11. Ups and Downs
  12. To Tell The Card That A Person Has Touched With His Finger
  13. The Card Discovered by Touch or Smell
  14. Confederate Cards
  15. The Ten Duplicates, or Cards in Couples
  16. The Turn-Over Feat
  17. The Nerve Feat
  18. To Tell The Number Of Cards By The Weight
  19. To Change the Card by Word of Command
  20. The Card in a Mirror
  21. The Card in the Opera-Glass
  22. The Cards in Tea-Caddies
  23. To Change A Card That's Been Put In A Box
  24. To Pick out a Card thought of, Blindfold
  25. The Knaves and the Constable
  26. The Royal Emigrants
  27. To Shuffle Cards So As Always To Keep One Certain Card At The Bottom
  28. The Magic Opera-Glass
  29. To Separate the Two Colors of a Pack of Cards by One Cut
  30. The Card Discovered Under the Handkerchief
  31. The Card Under the Hat
  32. The Card Burned and Afterwards Found in a Watch
  33. The Card in the Nut
  34. The Card in the Egg
  35. The Card in the Pocket-Book
  36. The Card Found Out by the Point of a Sword
  37. To Select all the Court Cards Blindfold
  38. To Name the Card upon which One or more Persons Fix
  39. To Make the Court Cards always Come Together
  40. To Change Four Knaves or Kings Held in Your Hand into Blank Cards or into Four Aces
  41. Picture Cards
  42. The Locomotive Card
  43. The Painted Pack
  44. To Turn a Card into a Bird
  45. Cards Changing Places by Command
  46. To Produce a Mouse from a Pack of Cards
  47. To Name the Rank of a Card that a Person has Drawn from a Piquet Pack
  48. To Tell the Card that May be Noted
  49. To Tell the Amount of the Numbers of any Two Cards Drawn from a Common Pack
  50. Ten Cards being Arranged in a Circle, to Tell that which Any One Thought of
  51. A New Method to Tell a Card by its Weight
  52. The Window Trick
  53. The Card of One Colour found in a Pack of the Other
  54. To Name several Cards which have been Drawn out of a Pack which has been Divided into Two Heaps
  55. To find a Certain Card after it has been Shuffled in the Pack
  56. Of Twenty-five Cards laid in Five Rows upon a Table to Name The One Touched
  57. Of Two Rows of Cards TO tell the One Which Has Been Touched
  58. To Guess the Card Thought of
  59. The Circle of Fourteen Cards
  60. The Shifting Card
  61. The Magic Slide, or to make a Card Disappear in an instant
  62. The Four Transformed Kings
  63. To Guess the Spots on Cards at the Bottom of Three Packets, which have been made by the Drawer
  64. To Guess the Cards which Four Persons Have Fixed Their Thoughts Upon
  65. How to Arrange the Twelve Picture Cards and the Four Aces of a Pack in Four Rows, so that there will be in neither Row Two Cards of the same Value nor Two of the same Suit, whether counted horizontally or perpendicularly.
  66. On Entering a Room, to Know of Three Cards placed Side by Side which have been Reversed - That Is To Say, Turned Upside Down
  67. To Bring a Card which has been Thrown Out of the Window into the Pack again
• EXPERIMENTS BY CHEMISTRY, FIREWORKS, &c.
  1. To Obtain Fire from Water
  2. To Give a Party a Ghastly Appearance
  3. The Fire and Wine Bottle
  4. The Fiery Flash
  5. To Boil a Liquid Without Fire
  6. To Procure Hydrogen Gas
  7. To Copy Writing with a Flat-iron
  8. To make Fringe appear about the Flame Of A Candle
  9. To Produce Instantaneous Light upon Ice
  10. To make Paper Fireproof
  11. To Melt Lead in Paper
  12. To Melt Steel as easily as Lead
  13. A Light that Burns for a Year
  14. Flame Extinguished by Gas
  15. The Tobacco-Pipe Cannon
  16. Prince Rupert's Detonating Glass Bombs
  17. To Wash the Hands in Molten Lead
  18. To make an Artificial Earthquake and Volcano
  19. To Produce Fire from Cane
  20. To Soften Iron or Steel
  21. To Fill with Smoke Two Apparently Empty Bottles
  22. To Make Luminous Writing in the Dark
  23. To Make Red Fire
  24. To Make Green Fire
  25. To Make Wine or Brandy Float on Water
  26. To Make Beautiful Transparent Coloured Water
• TRICKS WITH COINS
  1. How to Make a Coin Stick against the Wall
  2. The Balancing Coin
  3. The Vanishing Coin
  4. To Bring two separate Coins into One Hand
  5. The Magic Coin
  6. The Hat and Shilling Trick
  7. To Take a Shilling Out of a Handkerchief
  8. To Change a Sixpence into a Half-Sovereign
  9. The Magic Halfpenny
  10. To Multiply Coin
  11. The Sixpence and Half-Crown in a Glass
  12. The Dinner Table Puzzle
  13. To Make a Sixpence Vanish

1st edition 1869, 64 pages; PDF 41 pages.
word count: 16116 which is equivalent to 64 standard pages of text